Indian envoy to meet Victorian Premier this week

Natasha Chaku
Melbourne, Feb 6 (PTI) Indian High Commissioner Sujatha
Singh is set to meet Victoria Premier John Brumby this weekend
on the issue of continuing attacks on Indians, days after she
told the Australian Governor General that the state's
government was "in denial".
Brumby had sought a meeting with Singh following her
discussion of the crisis with Governor General Quentin Bryce
last week, and the meeting will take place during the weekend,
sources told PTI without giving further details.
Singh, who is scheduled to arrive here Saturday to meet
the premier, had in her meeting with Bryce last week
reportedly applauded the role of police in New South Wales,
Queensland and South Australia, but said Victoria was taking
too long to respond and was in a state of "denial" over the
severity of attacks.
The move prompted state's premier Brumby to say he wanted
to meet her again. Brumby said he would again seek a meeting
with her to assure that his government was doing all it could
to stop the attacks.
The two had met last month and discussed the same issue.
There have been over 100 instances of attacks on Indians, most
of them students, in Australia since the last year.
"I'll be able to inform her of all of these things and
again to reassure her that Victoria is a much safer place than
other places in Australia and indeed around the world," Brumby
had said. (MORE) PTI